Hi all. :)
I grew some garlics this year from supermarket garlic bulbs and had a good crop.
I want to make sure I get lots of garlics next year so I'm looking to buy proper varieties. Which garlic variety would you recommend?
Thanks
They're all great. Nuances of difference. Check out the credits?
www.reallygarlicky.co.uk/
www.garlicworld.co.uk/
www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk
thats some expensive garlic!!!
I'm not saying that you should buy it there - just read & learn.
But where do you source it cheaply? Like how cheap??
we get ours from wyvale garden centres, have been very impressed with those
Have tried GarlicWorld but an email bounced back ???
Have grown the different varieties from them but somehow labels got erm moved. Flavour was nice of all the ones I tried :D
Have bought Marco (Taylors Bulbs) for overwintering. I have some garlic flowerheads that I might plant out.
After trying for several years to grow the appalling so-called garlic from local garden centres, which just didn't bulk up at all, I bought some from the Garlic Farm last year. OK, it wasn't cheap, but it was very well worth it, and you only need to buy it once.
Buy it once......so do you use bulbs from the lst year to grow for the following?
Garlic, red of Sulmona, from Franchi.
Yes, I only buy garlic once and plant the fattest cloves from the fattest bulbs from then on - so I can't tell you what my white variety is any more! :-[
I just take the biggest bulbs and plant the cloves. I've just been planting Albigensian Wight, and I'll be putting in Solent Wight and elephant garlic as well as soon as I have a couple of beds clear. So far I've also put in the overwintering onions, walking onions and a few eschalote grise; most of the latter had rotted for some reason; I don't know why since all the other alliums are storing fine. I'll buy some more to make up the numbers; the harvest this year was pathetic with lots of very small bulbs but that could have been just the drought.
I bought 9 bulbs from garlic farm for £10, 4 of abyssian somthing and another one and 1 elephant garlic bulb with 10 HUGE cloves. I am hoping for a bumper crop!
I'm still waiting for my Purple Wight and Solent Wight to arrive from Dobies. Each were £2.95 for 2 bulbs.
The bed has been ready for a week now and I'm beginning to drum my fingers but I've still got plenty of time. ::)
Just to say that you can still get something from as late as March - even in a raised bed. NOT the ideal place! Bone dry.
Some of these went in in January, the rest in March.
Just remember to always replant the very best of your crop, that way your harvest will constantly improve & acclimatise to your growing conditions
Plenty of time to plant this year - plot wisdom here is November, not before ???
I go with the flow and plant garlic in November too, it seems to work fine here in P'boro :)
Just clicked through tim's links and the Dobies site. Delivery won't be til October. ::)
It's amazing what you can find out if you read ! I found some bulbils on my stored garlic this week and ate them. Going to go and see if there are any more today to plant, just as a trial like. :P
I've used Marshall's before but this year I've gone with the Garlic Farm Albisigan Wight (sp?) and their shallot offering. I'm also planting a head of the elephant garlic I grew this year for next year. Actually got to chat with the guy from the Garlic Farm at a show recently and he said the shallots will spoil me for other types. Expensive but hey, we're worth it, ha ha. ;D
Thanks all!
Garlic Lover's Growing Pack from the Garlic Farm is tempting me! Red of Sulmona looks good too... and Music from Really Garlicky... and.... I want them all! I just love garlics :P
I'm going to plant some cloves from big bulbs I harvested this year too. I have no idea what variety they are, but they were great.
Glad to hear that I do not need to hurry up planting, as I have to clear tomato plants first to make room for garlics. ::) Yours look great, Tim! I hope to have a crop like that next year. How much space between plants do they need by the way?
I just love planning what to grow next year! Really exciting :D
Ours were not great, & would have been much better in the ground but, with White Rot, we couldn't risk it.
And they would probably have been better planted in the Autumn.
Thanks Tim. Sorry to hear you had White Rot. Your garlics still look great though! :D
I'm going to try to make space for garlics before winter... :)
Got mine from the Garlic farm last year, but it got rust & didn't clove properly- no reflection on the supplier, just down to the weather, I guess. But still decided to go for some cheaper bulbs this year & have ordered from King's- not much choice but good value.
My Purple Wight from Dobies arrived on Monday. Got 6 bulbs, but one of them has about 3 cloves missing disappointingly. However, I've NEVER seen garlic that size before - wow, its enormous !
Planning to plant at the w/e.
depends on the garlic as to when to plant... some i have shouldnt be planted til early spring... but the garlic place said to def plant Elephant Garlic NOW
I bought Printnor Organic and Solent White from Tuckers. I planted them in April and have harvested a magnificent crop. The cloves all split perfectly within the bulbs despite not being subject to any cold weather. I may try planting a few this Autumn just in case my stored ones don't survive the winter.
bluddy hell !!! Mine arrived from Dobies this morning (it's been like Clapham Junction/Glasgow Central - pick a station close to you - in here all morning).
and WOWSER are they HUGE or what ????? If these are representative of the size I'll be getting next year, I'll have to find a bigger bed!